Until about an hour ago , my operating system was Zenwalk 5.2 . I liked it at first , but then things started to go wrong . As I installed some packages ( with netpkg ) , other apps ( that worked ) , just stopped working . I don’t know , maybe it’s something I did wrong .

Anyway , I had configured global hotkeys/shortcuts for amarok , specifically alt and up arrow to increase amarok’s volume , and alt and down arrow to decrease the volume . Everytime I used those hotkeys , the system just froze . I was using XFCE as my environment .

So , because I had enough reboots already , I decided to go back to ubuntu ( specifically xubuntu ) . I decided to keep my partitions just the way they were . I downloaded an iso , and I burned it . The installation went ok , but after I restarted and booted into ubuntu , errors started to pop-up . KDE said something about a session error , then Gnome said about the same thing , and then I was taken to something that looked like xterm.

I thinked about this , and this is what I think the problem was :

Zenwalk must have left some configuration files left on my /home partition

So , I thought , if I remove those , I should be greeted with something like an “instalation succesful” screen . Or at least something like that . After executing ls -al , a lot of hidden files and directories popped up . So , because my bash kung-fu sucks , I wrote a script that would remove all the hidden files and folders from /home :